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Product Description: Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste...read more

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9781584656463 | Univ of New Hampshire, October 31, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This timely study offers a new interpretation of the life and thought of author, editor, and Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton, whose long career as a public intellectual ran from the early 1850s to the first decade of the twentieth century.

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9781584656784 | Univ of New Hampshire, November 28, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America.

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Product Description: In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all...read more

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9780801429606 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995 Linda Dowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary movement that envisioned the possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.

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9780801481703 | Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person.

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Product Description: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition...read more

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9780813916347 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

Paperback:

9780813929323 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 17, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

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Product Description: As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde and Beardslcy sought to preserve a few precious fragments from what they imagined--and paradoxically welcomed--as England's imminent decline and fall...read more

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9780691066905 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: As Dr.

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9780691014722 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: As Dr.

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